Reid, the co-founder of LinkedIn, and Beato, a tech and culture writer, aim to dispel the public\u2019s concerns about ceding control to AI systems and to establish trust in AI companies and their methods by showing \u201cwhat could possibly go right\u201d in AI development. Attempting to persuade readers that industry regulation is undemocratic and inhibits progress, the authors promulgate industry-friendly ideas such as permissionless innovation, iterative development, and risk tolerance. They take issue with AI \u201cGloomers,\u201d who favor official oversight. They examine the historical context of technological adoption, using examples like the automobile, the power loom, and the printing press to illustrate how new technologies can transform societies. However, the authors don\u2019t entirely prove their case. They frequently make comparisons that are an oversimplification of a complex issue, such as when they write: \u201cRegulation is one way we try to compel certainty, but no regulation can completely eliminate the risk of some unfortunate thing happening.\u201d The authors compare the regulation of Large Language Models (LLMs) used in AI to laws against robbery and professional licensing for doctors and lawyers: \u201cLaws that make robbery a crime aren\u2019t a guarantee that you won\u2019t ever get mugged\u2014they\u2019re simply a policy designed to reduce that possibility.\u201d But these are vastly different domains with distinct risks and regulatory challenges. The authors\u2019 writing suffers from logical fallacies\u2014hyperbole, hasty generalizations, and false dichotomies. At times, the book reads as if it were written by AI\u2014meaning the arguments sound plausible, but may suffer from a biased feedback loop that could have occurred during one of their \u201cendless conversations\u2026with Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini,\u201d which Beato cites using \u201cwhile drafting this book.\u201d These problems render the book largely sophomoric.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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